The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Murtala Mohammed, has alleged that a Member of Parliament (MP) and Minister of State hired a lady to take nude pictures of a colleague Cabinet Minister.

According to Mr Mohammed, who is also the MP for Nantong, the said MP equipped the lady with a tablet and a mobile phone to carry out the task.

On his Facebook, Mr Mohammed questioned why the MP would want to sabotage the cabinet minister.

"I ask those sycophantic elements to ask the said MP whether it is ethical to buy a tablet and a mobile phone for a lady friend of a colleague cabinet Minister to get n*de pictures of that colleague of his.

"Available whatsapp messages, text messages and audio.

"Those sycophants have no idea where they are dragging him to.

"They should not push me," he said.

Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Murtala Mohammed

Graphic Online could not independently verify Mr Mohammed's claims.

Early on in an interview with Tamale based Diamond FM, Mr Mohammed accused an MP of trying to use unfair means to unseat him as MP for Nantong.

Though he declined to name the said MP, he said he possessed three recorded tapes of a meeting between the said MP and some of the NDC Nantong constituency executives.

Mr Mohammed described the alleged plot as pathetic, unethical and 'unIslamic'.